Scientific Thought and Research Methodology: Concepts, Principles, Philosophy of Science, and Ontological Dimension

This book presents an easy introduction for undergraduate students, graduate students, research assistants, and researchers new to the profession. It is very important to come to a state of scientific mind who are interested in both social and natural sciences. This book provides fertile content, including ontological, cognitive, technic, logical, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of making science. It presents the roles of science, such as classification along with actual examples in both social and natural sciences to readers for a better understanding. It also contains special content to warn readers about pseudoscience and the art of deception and to guide them on how to detect and recognize fake science. The glossary section of this book contains unusual terms related to scientific reasoning. The author's words to readers -I wish a pleasant reading to the science-loving passengers of this 'pale blue dot.-'